Jim Thompson, the House on the Klong

This book surveys the home of Jim Thompson, the legendary American businessmen - a man whose flari for the tasteful and graceful led him to build a house in which objects of great value and beauty can stll be seen displayed in appropriate surroundings. The collection includes a large number of pieces ranging from stone sculptures from the Khmer and Sukhothai periods to Chinese bule and white ceramics and the five-coloured bencharong; to paintings in various media, some dating from the Ayutthaya period, some painted in the last decades. This book reviews the early years when Thompson was building his business and looking for a location for his new house, the reader is then introduced to the house and garden, before the art objects are described in more detail.